Past Productions

The Metal Children Developmental Lab Production

Adam Rapp’s powerful drama THE METAL CHILDREN, is about a gifted New York writer’s explosive encounter with a small American town hellbent on banning his young adult novel. Rapp is the acclaimed author of such works as Pulitzer Prize finalist RED LIGHT WINTER, NOCTURNE, and BLACKBIRD.

The Metal Children Developmental Lab Production

June 10- June 29, 2008

Adam Rapp's powerful drama THE METAL CHILDREN, is about a gifted New York writer’s explosive encounter with a small American town hellbent on banning his young adult novel. Rapp is the acclaimed author of such works as Pulitzer Prize finalist RED LIGHT WINTER, NOCTURNE, and BLACKBIRD.

Equally memorable on the stage and screen, Billy Crudup has appeared at Vineyard Theatre in Chiori Miyagawa's AMERICA DREAMING and Adam Rapp's THE METAL CHILDREN. On stage, Crudup most recently starred in the repertory productions of NO MAN’S LAND and WAITING FOR GODOT on Broadway, opposite Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart and Shuler Hensley. In 2007, Crudup won a “Best Performance by a Featured Actor” Tony Award for his role in the Broadway production of THE COAST OF UTOPIA. He also received Tony nominations for his roles in THE ELEPHANT MAN, THE PILLOWMAN, and ARCADIA.
His other stage credits include William Inge’s BUS STOP and the Roundabout Theater’s production of THREE SISTERS, which earned him a Drama Desk nomination. He has appeared in OEDIPUS with Frances McDormand, starred in the New York Shakespeare Festival production of MEASURE FOR MEASURE at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, and starred in the off-Broadway run of THE RESISTIBLE RISE OF ARTURO UI opposite Al Pacino and Steve Buscemi.
Crudup most recently starred in Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant and made his television debut in Netflix’s psychological thriller "Gypsy." Additional major motion pictures include Jackie, 20th Century Women, Spotlight, Youth in Oregon, The Stanford Prison Experiment, Sleepers, Everyone Says I Love You, Inventing the Abbotts, Without Limits, Jesus’ Son, Waking the Dead, Almost Famous, 1 Mile to You, Glass Chin, Rudderless, Blood Ties, Eat Pray Love, Public Enemies, Watchmen, Charlotte Gray, Big Fish, Stage Beauty, Trust the Man, Mission Impossible 3, and The Good Shepherd.
Upcoming, he will appear in Zack Snyder’s Justice League, to debut in November, and will star in the 2018 film adaptation of Maria Semple’s novel, Where’d You Go, Bernadette, alongside Kristen Wiig and Cate Blanchett.<><><><><><><><><><>

(Bruno Binelli/Father Derby) At the Vineyard: Adam Rapp's THE METAL CHILDREN, Elizabeth Egloff’s PHAEDRA. Other credits: RESCUE ME, THE ROYAL FAMILY, CORALINE, CORNBURY, BEEBO BRINKER CHRONICLES, THE WAX, SAVED OR DESTROYED, LIPSTICK TRACES. Two performance Obies: one for SOME MEN and Goethe’s FAUST, another for THE BOYS IN THE BAND. His own plays: JACK, THE HOME SHOW PIECES and 2 SAMUEL 11, ETC. (Home), DEAD MOTHER (The Public), SHE STOOPS TO COMEDY (Playwrights Horizons, Obie), THE ARGUMENT (Target Margin, Obie), THE MYOPIA (The Foundry), in collaboration with Stephin Merritt: CORALINE (MCC), Guggenheim, Lortel fellowships, Alpert Award.

(Cooper/Nurse/Porky Pig Boy) NY Stage: THE METAL CHILDREN (Vineyard Theatre), THE GREAT RECESSION at the Flea Theatre, MISERY AND GOOD FORTUNE at HERE Arts, and most recently, a workshop of GILGAMESH’S GAME with New Georges. Jessy is a series regular on the award-winning webseries “Anyone But Me” and can be seen online with sketch comedy group BriTANick. Training: Experimental Theatre Wing at Tisch, NYU.

(Wig and Makeup Design) Adam Rapp’s FINER NOBLE GASES and ESSENTIAL SELF DEFENSE. Recently: LOVE, LOSS AND WHAT I WORE (Westside Theater), THE DUCHESS OF MALFI (Red Bull), ORLANDO (Yale School of Drama), THAT PRETTY PRETTY... (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater), JERRY SPRINGER- THE OPERA (at Carnegie Hall), WALMARTOPIA (Minetta Lane). Her work has also been seen in NY at Playwrights Horizons, Signature Theatre Company, The Flea, MCC, The MINT, Atlantic Theatre Company, Second Stage, Century Center, Primary Stages, The Acting Company and Columbia University, among others. Regional: New York Stage & Film, Westport Playhouse, Philadelphia Theater Company, Two Rivers, Syracuse Stages and The University of Michigan Opera. She is also a Hair Supervisor on Broadway, currently with Enron.

(Playwright and Director) An Obie-award-winning playwright and director. He is the author of numerous plays, which include THE METAL CHILDREN (Vineyard Theatre), NOCTURNE (American Repertory Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop), FASTER (Rattlestick), ANIMALS & PLANTS (A.R.T.), FINER NOBLE GASES (26th Humana Festival, Rattlestick), STONE COLD DEAD SERIOUS (A.R.T., Edge Theatre), BLACKBIRD (The Bush, London; Edge Theatre), GOMPERS, (Pittsburgh City Theatre), ESSENTIAL SELF-DEFENSE (Playwrights Horizons/Edge Theatre), AMERICAN SLIGO (Rattlestick), BINGO WITH THE INDIANS (The Flea), KINDNESS (Playwrights Horizons), and RED LIGHT WINTER (Steppenwolf, Scott Rudin Productions at Barrow Street Theatre), which was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He has published seven novels for young adults, including The Buffalo Tree (Front Street Books, 1997), which was struck from the curriculum at Muhlenberg High School in Reading, Pennsylvania in 2005, and Punkzilla (Candlewick Press, 2009), which was recently named a 2010 Michael J. Printz Honor Book. He is also the author of the adult novel, The Year Of Endless Sorrows (Farrar Strauss & Giroux, 2006), and the graphic novel, Ball-Peen Hammer (First Second Books, 2009). His playwriting honors include The Helen Merrill Award, The 2006 Princess Grace Statue, a Lucille Lortel Playwright’s Fellowship, and The Benjamin H. Danks Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. This summer he will direct a workshop production of his new play, WELCOME HOME DEAN CHARBONNEAU, at Seattle Rep.

Fiction students are told to write what they know, but the savvy writer does at least two extra things: mix torn-from-real-life events with haunting, unsettling images and then cast a movie star (say...Billy Crudup?) as himself. In The Metal Children, opening this week at the Vineyard Theatre, prolific writer-director Adam<><>

In the spring of 2005, I received a call from Bruce Weber of The New York Times telling me he was about to travel to Reading, Pennsylvania, where my young adult novel The Buffalo Tree had caused a bit of a stir. The novel, published by Front Street Books in<><><><>

In the surreal young-adult novel “The Metal Children” by Tobin Falmouth, one by one the teenage girls of a middle-American town become pregnant and vanish, only to reappear as inanimate statues in a nearby cornfield. The book ends with a horrific act of self-inflicted violence that can be seen as eit<>